As a former resident of San Jose, I have to wonder how many U.S. airports Grant Martin has flown out of. I suggest he visit Cleveland Hopkins, where he would be lucky to find a clean bathrooms with working faucets and paper towel dispensers at any time of day (at least in the women's restrooms.) And while there are 'jet-bridges' to every plane in this god-awful climate, there is the walk from the short-term parking structure to the terminal, which (unless one knows how to avoid it by taking an elevator up one floor, then another back down to the same level), takes one outside across two lanes of traffic between two large buildings which act as a wind tunnel, in weather nastier than this former Californian could have imagined. The last time I flew through San Jose, I was relieved to find it was not simply nostalgia or homesickness that made me believe that when I moved to north east Ohio from California, I was moving to another country (maybe another century).

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